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The Georgia Doubleheader Weekend awaits the ASALMS Southern Division after
Orange County.Posted July 25th, 2007
By ASA Late Model Series
Lexington, Michigan (07/25/2007): The ASA Late Model Series Southern Division
Presented by GM Performance Parts is busy preparing for their next race, which is
set for Saturday August 11, 2007 at the Orange County (NC) Speedway in
Rougemont, North Carolina for the running of the Orange County 125. The Fifth
Race of the 2007 season.
After the Orange County event, the ASALMS Southern Division contingent then get
a little over a month off before perhaps the most pivotal weekend of the 2007
racing season with two races in two days in the great state of Georgia.
The South Georgia 125 at the South Georgia (GA) Motorsports Park, which was
set for Saturday June 2, 2007 was postponed due to the raging wildfires in the
area at the time! That has been rescheduled for Friday September 14, 2007 and
will now be the sixth race of the 2007 season and part of what will now be a
Doubleheader weekend in the Peach State!
The next day, Saturday September 15, 2007 the ASALMS Southern Division
contingent will travel North to the New Senoia (GA) Raceway, located Southwest of
Atlanta in Senoia, Georgia for the seventh race of the 2007 season and complete
the Georgia Doubleheader weekend with the running of the Senoia 125.
Joining the ASALMS Southern Division at South Georgia will be the SGMP Pure
Stocks. The South Georgia 125 Entry Form is available from the original date of
June 2, 2007 and nothing has changed with the exception of the date; Friday
September 14, 2007 and is available by clicking on the link below: South Georgia
125 Entry Form
The Senoia 125 Entry Form will be available beginning on Thursday August 30,
2007 as the support divisions for the Senoia event will be announced at a later
date.
In the ASALMS Southern Divisions’ lone appearance at SGMP back on July 3,
2006, the special the Fourth of July Weekend saw the ASALMS Southern Division
invade for an extended distance 125-lap Feature on Monday of the holiday
weekend. In the Firecracker 125, Josh Hamner and Bo Miller started on the front
row of the 125-lap feature and throughout the extended laps feature on a hot
Southern Georgia evening, the two stout freshman battled throughout the event as
Hamner paced the field for the first 22 laps.
Miller took the top spot on lap 23 and fended off challenge after challenge from
Hamner and then it all came together on lap 122 when the two stout Southern
pilots touched battling for the lead and ended up in the turn one wall. Landon
Cassill, who was reeling in both leaders in an attempt to make it a three car battle
for the Firecracker 125 win, would inherit the lead with three laps to go.
The 16-year-old at the time, now 17 and signed with NASCAR powerhouse,
Hendrick Motorsports, would make no mistake in holding off a late charge from
both Jay Middleton and Matt Hawkins to score his first career ASALMS Southern
Division Feature win. Middleton finished second while Matt Hawkins, Dillon Oliver,
and 14-year-old Spencer Taylor were the Top Five. Cassill also established the
ASALMS track record earlier in the afternoon in Qualifying by turning an 18.579 lap
around the 0.500 Mile Progressively Banked D-Shaped Oval.
This is the tracks third year of operation as the South Georgia Motorsports Park
has hosted the USAR Hooters Pro Cup series as well as the PRA Big Cars Series
(the former USAC Silver Crown machines) and last season, NASCAR Nextel Cup
Driver, Ryan Newman won the PRA Series’ lone appearance at the 0.500 Mile
Progressively Banked D-Shaped Oval.
In addition, SGMP has been a testing facility for several NASCAR Nextel Cup teams
and the new Cars of Tomorrow (COT). Running on a bi-weekly basis, the
McDonald’s Super Series begins with a regular racing program of Outlaw Late
Models, as well as Super Stocks, Pure Stocks, and Thunder and Lightning
Divisions.
SGMP is a 0.500 Mile Progressively Banked Paved Oval has an elevation of 242
Feet Above Sea Level while the width ranges from 60-70 Feet wide with Concrete
retainer walls all around the oval. Using the AMB Transponders Timing System,
SGMP is lighted with quality Musco Lighting and a state of the art scoreboard from
Daktronics. There’s a paved pit road with 40 concrete pit stalls as SGMP has a
seating capacity of over 5,000 patrons.
SGMP is located in the great state of Georgia in Cook County, 12 miles North of
Valdosta, Georgia off of I-75 at Exit 32, just 30 minutes North of the
Florida/Georgia border. For more information, please call 1 (229) 896-7000. For
testing information and to schedule a test, please call: 1 (229) 460-5537 or log
onto the tracks website at: South Georgia Motorsports Park
As for the historic New Senoia Raceway, the 0.375 Mile Semi-Banked Paved Oval
(Formally the Senoia Speedway) is a special events only facility on an
approximately monthly basis featuring some of the most popular professional
racing series available to short track-racing fans today. NSR is located 4 miles
West of Senoia, Georgia on State Highway 16. From Fayetteville, travel 11 miles
South on Hwy. 85 to the Senoia Hwy. 16 intersection and then turn right on Hwy. 16
for four miles to the track.
From Newnan and points South on I-85 you would exit at I-85 Exit # 41 then turn
left on US 29 and go ½ mile and bear right onto GA Hwy 16 for 10 miles to the
track. From Griffin take Newnan Rd. (GA Hwy 16) for approximately 20 miles to the
track.
To contact New Senoia Raceway call Charlie Edwards at: 1 (770) 599-6161 or log
onto to the new website at: New Senoia Raceway
For more information about the 2007 seasons within all three divisions of the
ASALMS, You can call the ASALMS home offices during normal business hours
Monday through Friday (9am-5pm) (EST) at: 1 (800) 385-2503.
You can also log onto any of the three websites for more information concerning
the 2007 season. For the Challenge Division, go to: ASALMS Challenge Division
For the Northern Division, log in at: ASALMS Northern Division and finally for the
Southern Division click on: ASALMS Southern Division
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